Brandon Weigel

Writer

Brandon Weigel is City Paper's web editor. When not writing and editing blogs about breaking news, Baltimore arts, or anything interesting that comes across his desk, he's covering music and culture for the paper or writing his columns on sports, The Undercard, and fast food, Fast Foodie. Before joining City Paper full-time in 2012, Weigel was an editorial aide for The Washington Post's Going Out Guide, where he wrote articles on music and D.C. culture. His work has also appeared in USA Today, SPIN, The Sun, Chicago Reader, Urbanite, and the Baltimore Business Journal.

Recent Articles

Our Best of Baltimore Readers' Poll is live, giving you the chance to vote on all the things that make the city great. The best bars, the best art, the best stores, the best local celebrity—all that good stuff. Click here or on that box thingy to start voting. The first round closes Sept. 6, after...

Shake & Bake Family Fun Center, the Pennsylvania Avenue roller rink, bowling alley, and arcade that has served West Baltimore for three decades, is set to close indefinitely on Sept. 1. A pre-recorded message at the phone number for Shake & Bake announced the closure, and it would appear the website...

A video uploaded to YouTube shows a local activist, who identifies himself as "Ty," smashing the plaque on the Christopher Columbus Obelisk just off Harford Road in Northeast Baltimore. "Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere," "Ty"...

Councilman Brandon Scott announced on Twitter Sunday night that he would introduce a resolution at tonight's City Council meeting calling for the "destruction" of Confederate monuments in Baltimore City. And tonight, the resolution passed unanimously (with one major adjustment: the "deconstruction"...

Station North music venue and art space Metro Gallery is extending its hours to up its presence as a watering hole. Metro will stay open after shows Thursday through Sunday for late-night happy hour, and when they don't have shows on those days, they'll open at 8 p.m. to serve drinks. Bar nights...

A benefit concert is planned for Sarah Hughes, a local saxophonist who was assaulted during a carjacking and lost her Selmer Mark VI, wallet with money from a gig, phone, and Hyundai. In a July 24 Facebook post, Hughes wrote that she was heading to a jam session on N. Calvert and E. 23rd streets...

The Baltimore Brigade, with a record of 4-8, announced earlier this week they had clinched a playoff berth. But that was not the case. "Due to an oversight in the AFL Playoff scenarios, Baltimore was misinformed that they had clinched a playoff berth earlier this week," the team said in an email....